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DESCRIPTION:Darwin developed the theory of sexual selection to explain why
the animal world abounds in stunning beauty\, from the brilliant colors of
butterflies and fishes to the songs of birds and frogs. He argued that an
imals have “a taste for the beautiful” that drives their potential mates t
o evolve features that make them more sexually attractive and reproductive
ly successful. But if Darwin explained why sexual beauty evolved in animal
s\, he struggled to understand how. In A Taste for the Beautiful\, Michael
Ryan\, one of the world’s leading authorities on animal behavior\, tells
the remarkable story of how he and other scientists have taken up where Da
rwin left off and transformed our understanding of sexual selection\, shed
ding new light on human behavior in the process.\nDrawing on cutting-edge
work in neuroscience and evolutionary biology\, as well as his own importa
nt studies of the tiny Túngara frog deep in the jungles of Panama\, Ryan e
xplores the key questions: Why do animals perceive certain traits as beaut
iful and others not? Do animals have an inherent sexual aesthetic and\, if
so\, where is it rooted? Ryan argues that the answers to these questions
lie in the brain—particularly of females\, who act as biological puppeteer
s\, spurring the development of beautiful traits in males. This theory of
how sexual beauty evolves explains its astonishing diversity and provides
new insights about the degree to which our own perception of beauty resemb
les that of other animals.\nVividly written and filled with fascinating st
ories\, A Taste for the Beautiful will change how you think about beauty a
nd attraction.\nMichael J. Ryan is the Clark Hubbs Regents Professor in Zo
ology at the University of Texas and a Senior Research Associate at the Sm
ithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. He is a leading researche
r in the fields of sexual selection\, mate choice\, and animal communicati
on. He lives in Austin\, Texas.
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Darwin developed the theory of sexual selection to explain w
hy the animal world abounds in stunning beauty\, from the brilliant colors
of butterflies and fishes to the songs of birds and frogs. He argued that
animals have “a taste for the beautiful” that drives their potential mate
s to evolve features that make them more sexually attractive and reproduct
ively successful. But if Darwin explained why sexual beauty evolved
in animals\, he struggled to understand how. In A Tas
te for the Beautiful\, Michael Ryan\, one of the world’s leading autho
rities on animal behavior\, tells the remarkable story of how he and other
scientists have taken up where Darwin left off and transformed our unders
tanding of sexual selection\, shedding new light on human behavior in the
process.

\n

Drawing on cutting-edge work in neuroscience and evolutio
nary biology\, as well as his own important studies of the tiny Túngara fr
og deep in the jungles of Panama\, Ryan explores the key questions: Why do
animals perceive certain traits as beautiful and others not? Do animals h
ave an inherent sexual aesthetic and\, if so\, where is it rooted? Ryan ar
gues that the answers to these questions lie in the brain—particularly of
females\, who act as biological puppeteers\, spurring the development of b
eautiful traits in males. This theory of how sexual beauty evolves explain
s its astonishing diversity and provides new insights about the degree to
which our own perception of beauty resembles that of other animals.

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p>Vividly written and filled with fascinating stories\, A Taste for the
Beautiful will change how you think about beauty and attraction.
\n

Michael J. Ryan is the Clark Hubbs Regents Professor
in Zoology at the University of Texas and a Senior Research Associate at
the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. He is a leading res
earcher in the fields of sexual selection\, mate choice\, and animal commu
nication. He lives in Austin\, Texas.